GRAND RAPIDS – Taylor Tepper's usual confidence left her Monday night, just before her floor exercise. So she asked her Kenowa Hills-Grandville teammates to cheer louder than usual.

They did. And her confidence returned.

Tepper, a senior at Grandville, posted a team record 9.85 on the floor to lead Kenowa-Grandville to a 144.45-140.15 victory against Forest Hills, a team comprised of gymnasts from all three Forest Hills high schools.

“Before floor I just wasn't feeling it,” Tepper said. “I said to my teammates, 'Cheer really hard for me,' and they did.”

Tepper, a Division I gymnast who also trains at and competes occasionally with Flights Gymnastics in Allendale, surpassed the previous team floor exercise record of 9.75 posted by Bethany Couturier in 1995. Couturier was Tepper's coach at Allendale Gymnastics before the club's new owners changed its name to Flights. Tepper's 9.85 Monday night is a new overall team record as Couturier posted a 9.80 on the uneven bars in 1995 and Nina Zwier posted a 9.80 on vault in 2009.

Tepper's previous best score on the floor was a 9.7, at last year's state meet. “I changed some of my dance moves,” Tepper said. “The judges in some of our previous meets gave me some suggestions and tips on things I should change so I did, and I just tried to keep it clean tonight too.”

Her floor exercise features three tumbling passes, the first being a front layout, front layout, the second a front tuck step-out, round-off back handspring and the final tumbling pass features a front handspring, front full. “Oh my gosh,” Tepper said. “I can't believe I got that.”

Kenowa Hills-Grandville remains undefeated in OK Conference competition (7-0) while Monday's loss was Forest Hills' first (6-1) of the season. The two teams will meet again Wednesday night, along with Rockford, in a triangular meet at Rockford that will mark the end of the regular season. The conference meet is scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday at Kenowa Hills.

“Our girls have been battling colds and some sore ankles but we've had a bit of a break and we're getting back into it,” Kenowa-Grandville coach Brenda McDonald said. “We had a lot of falls tonight that I didn't like, but we had a lot of good things too. We had girls stay on the beam who hadn't been able to do that. We have added some new skills to our routines too so that was good also.”

Forest Hills may have lost Monday night but its 140.15 was the team's highest score of the season. I couldn't be happier,” Forest Hills coach Lindsay Orgeck said. “We beat our best score by three points and we had four nines on the floor.” Those four floor exercise scores were posted by Kaley Marland (9.55), Summer Hagan (9.30), Hannah Sinclair (9.20) and Maddie Anderson (9.10).

“We had nothing to lose so we went out and did it,” Orgeck said. “We had our highest bars score of the season (34.10) and Kaylee Brooks-Snider hit her back tuck on the beam and looked great. Now we're excited about Wednesday and Saturday.”